I have to say I'd rather keep the age displayed (I've used it already today to quickly find out how old two nephews are, and I'm not sure I'd prefer having to click or hover to find that out. I'd rather lose the permanent note display, if the issue is maximising horizontal real-estate.

Maybe the age could be in a different colour, to distinguish it? Or is that not the objection to its display?

I have to say I'd rather keep the age displayed (I've used it already today to quickly find out how old two nephews are, and I'm not sure I'd prefer having to click or hover to find that out. I'd rather lose the permanent note display, if the issue is maximising horizontal real-estate.

Hi Skwire.nice app. tend to agree with above. having 65 living 1st cousins plus numerous neices and nephews the age column is great.Any possibility to having the columns be made to stay at last state after closing the app.Some of my columns tend to disappear (year and/or age) after closing and I have to fiddle around to find them to dispay

Often the most convincing people are those who have lost the plot so much they don't recognize the difference between fact and fantasy

As for your issue, nogojoe, I haven't seen that happen. The columns get resized when the app first displays, when a birthday is added, and when you resize the app. If you lose a column again, try resizing the app slightly to see if that brings them back in line.

Brilliant I love it, thank you... So far I have relayed on my mums excellent organisation-skills to remember birthday, but now time to take responsibility and thanks to you, your wonderful smart wife and mother in law I am a grown-up!!!

Website | Downloadv1.0.8 - 2011-04-01 + Added a toolbar button to toggle the age column. (Thanks, V. Holmes) * Changed the Notes pane to a separate window and added a toolbar button to toggle it. Size and position are saved.

It's tough, isnt it, to keep a piece of software small and perfectly formed, features seem to just sprout

This is just for information - I was looking into the matter for other reasons recently, and it might be useful: both gmail and facebook allow export of birthdays, but only as ical. If you are looking at one off import this might be a useful option to consider.

I would say that is my biggest problem with birthdays: you seem to copy/enter them over and over. Phone, email client, online tool, paper diary. And as a result you dont copy all of them, losing some behind that you might regret later (especially if you forget you hadnt copied everything and reformat the machine) and never have all of them anywhere. My side project was looking into "master data" for contacts but especially birthdays, and how to import/export/convert so i can have them on my phone, online etc. and not miss a birthday whether I am home or travelling

A great little programme! Thanks for providing it!The only tiny thing that annoyed me was when I had to use Arrow down to increase the date. But no big deal! It would also be nice to have a localized version of it. Any chance of that?

Not sure whether this is something I've missed or not, but my birthdays dataset is last year's and ages for this year aren't being updated unless I edit the relevant record, even if the date has passed. (My birthday was in February and birthdays still showed me as last year's age until I hit the Edit button and OKed the entry.)

You may not be aware that this is one of THE most useful programs I've ever used? Particularly with a variety of children to be kept track of, when it's VITAL to get "Happy 12th Birthday" (or whatever) neither a year early nor late?

Ah, crap. I apologise for this and, after some digging, I know what caused it. It has to do with compiling as Unicode but trying to read the older ANSI birthdays.txt file. Man, what a stupid oversight on my part. I hope I didn't cause you guys too much work. I am very sorry.

Fortunately, I only have about 40 entries and we have a backup (a Dr Who calendar on the kitchen wall with people's birthdays and anniversaries handwritten onto it!) so the ones I couldn't remember the month of (a handful) didn't take much sorting out! Now stop beating yourself up!

Dcupdater keeps downloading v1.0.8 and I download the same version when I download from the software page.

Yep, sorry about that. I reverted the build once oblivion and nogojoe reported the ANSI/UTF-8 screwup I made. This was to prevent any others from messing up their birthdays until I could write a fix for the problem. Apologies for the trouble; here the latest version: